Russian leery of NWO civil engineering. US government pulls out of a joint working group with the Russians on civil society, disagree on Afghan heroin production. Lessons of Chinese opium war not lost on Russians. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21258715

More than $1.2bn (£760m) has been pledged to buy off the remaining population of Syria following the genocide of young Syrian men who may pose any resistance in the future. A discovery of dozens of bodies with their hands tied behind their backs and gunshots wounds to their heads, suggested they were summarily executed. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21258511